At the risk of interjecting fiction into a business discussion. This whole thing 'karma vs cash' reminds me of the intersection between the way Cory Doctorow d

At the risk of interjecting fiction into a business discussion. This whole thing 'karma vs cash' reminds me of the intersection between the way Cory Doctorow describes the 'Whuffie' reputation based currency in 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom' and the way the the protagonist of Charlie Stross' 'Accelerando' makes his living in the first chapter or so of the book.